Tech problem. Enabling CD-rom for MS-DOS mode.

[The Hierophant]

Howdy. I'm a big fan of old, pre-windows95 games and as such I often need to run them in MS-DOS mode. However, for some reason my comp won't enable the CD-rom drive in said mode. It used to allow this, until I sent it to the shop for repairs recently and they reisntalled my OS for me. Now, I've tried reinstalling windows again but this doesn't work. I know I'll have to fiddle around with my config.sys or something like that, but I have no idea what to add in or take out.
I'm using Win98 btw.
If anyone could offer any help or advice it would be much appreciated.

[Night Stalker]

You should be able to find your answers here.

[The Hierophant]

Originally posted by Night Stalker: You should be able to find your answers here.

Cheers, I'll check it out. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Paladin2000]

While you are checking out the link...

There are things that you need to do first:
1. Download you CD-ROM's DOS driver
2. Edit the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files

CONFIG.SYS
- Add this line to the sample that I gave: (from the post in the link)
Device=C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000
Note1: please substitute C:\CDROM\CDROM.SYS with the correct path and driver.
Note2: If /D:MSCD000 don't work, try /D:MSCD001

AUTOEXEC.BAT
-Add this line to the sample that I gave: (from the post in the link)
LH C:\Windows\Command\MSCDEX.EXE /D:MSCD000
Note1: The file MSCDEX.EXE is usually located in the C:\Windows\Command folder/directory
Note2: The device ID /D:MSCD000 must be the same as the one stated in the CONFIG.SYS; which means if you set the ID as /D:MSCD001 in the CONFIG.SYS, then you will need to specified the ID as /D:MSCD001 in the AUTOEXEC.BAT

[ 01-16-2003, 02:24 PM: Message edited by: Paladin2000 ]